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21 " I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies! "
― Scott C. Holstad
22 " War is the true Nature of the world, a dog with matted fur lapping eagerly at the bloodyNiles, wagging its threadbare tail the entire time. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Industrial Madness
23 " Fuck the sweats, I want the world. No rhyming for me, no structured bullshit, I want to spread out, feel the bullets whistle past. "
24 " The few who are ballsy enough to actually live wind up in madhouses, tortured by actuality.We all wind up in the same place anyhow … food for unseeing worms. "
25 " Sure, I’ve written about women and sex and madhouses, just like Bukowski did, but I’ve also written about many other topics, often utilizing other stylistic methods in doing so. Bukowski would probably have been annoyed with the rambling tone of my poems in Cells. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Cells
26 " of course i have learned over the years that my fantasies are always better than reality and i leave it at that. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Junction City
27 " No one is asked whether they wish/ To be born. Everyone is asked to die. / Life is comprised of the noisy silence / One makes of it. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Shadows Before the Maiming
28 " Winter, and You are the only Possibilities in this World. Paper, pen, Teeth, bones, and skin, The future is now. How will you make This work, snowflakes Against the window, Every ounce of pain Like blood on my lips. "
29 " I’ve wanted to die for along time and one day,I’m going out like a Texas lightning storm – big, bold, beautiful,deadly, dead and done with. "
30 " when it’s time to break down and you’re lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you’re lying there shivering, it’s not the memories that keep you going. instead it’s the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it’s best just to sit back and let what is be. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Distant Visions, Again and Again
31 " Two aphorisms I advocate and live by: 1) "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." (Actually, this is a common mis-quotation from the source, George Santayana, who wrote specifically in Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense from his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 2) "NO religion can stand up to two words: PROVE IT!" (Source unknown). "
32 " she saidi want you tomeet himyou'll like himreallyyeahi thoughtlike car crashbroken glassrusty razored underwearbarbed wire cheeracid fearlike walking downnormandienakednightlylike tiger claws 'nearthquake fallsi'llreally relish meeting 'm. "
― Scott C. Holstad , Street Poems
33 " lately I’ve been feeling like I’ve been mellowing out a bit and at those times my wife lovely reassures me by saying, no, you’re still the same uptight bastard you’ve always been "
― Scott C. Holstad , Dancing with the Lights Out
34 " If I killed myself now would I make the papers would anyone care I already know the answer to that besides it’s irrelevant "
35 " i am nothing but bits of paper, grains of sand pressed hot against hard flesh, campfires burning bright against the still night. i am man‑flesh human life walking ~ dreaming, twitching under the noonday sun. "
36 " sweat streamingkilling hard inoverkilli wake upscreamingthere’s nothingto be done butgo at itagain "
― Scott C. Holstad , Hang Gliding on X
37 " In the space of two mere weeks, I have come to know the meaning of life. I won’t share it with you, because we all have to find our own meaning. Camus was right, though. Sometimes, I feel just like Meursault. "
38 " dancing with death when he whispers in your ear is a very erotic moment in a man’s life and it may not have happened yet for me but he’s sent his assistants many times to try me out. we’ve all been failures much to death’s disappointment "
― Scott C. Holstad , The Napalmed Soul
39 " she told me that a friend of hers had heard of me and exclaimed “he’s disturbing to read.” now i like that – “disturbing to read: -- like popping pills or pushing the plunger down, like big knives and rusty razors. i’m fucking disturbing – let me disturb you too "
40 " i might go seeLondon After Midnightat Coven 13 tonighti might sit at homeand write lousy poemsi might play with mycat and then gotrick people to deathit’s afreezeframehappenstancerealityof sickness "